Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [conj] [be] now [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside , huge stars blazed like shaggy white chrysanthemums ; the moon had stopped blushing and was now flooding the pampas with ghostly silver light . |
| 2 | It is important , then , to establish what linguists have had to say and are now saying about literacy . |
| 3 | But the sight of the glass took him back into the past again , the past which he believed he had exorcised but was now fetched back in fragments and longer scenarios by every possible association . |
| 4 | Local mothers have formed and are now administering Scotland 's first Gaelic-speaking pre-school playgroups . |
| 5 | Thus I can know what is in the bottom drawer of my desk , or what I shall eat for breakfast tomorrow , by some form of inductive inference from what I have observed or am now observing . |
| 6 | Loch Morlich must have been stunningly beautiful once , before the picnic tables and dinghies arrived , and at least the wonderful Scots pines that surround it have survived and are now protected . |